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ConCerts With a DifferenCe
Bach combined with
Irish folk, classical music
with gypsy verve. The
sheer joy of playing, joking,
improvising on traditional
and untraditional instruments
alike – ever heard of the jawbone
of an ass?
Latin, salsa or flamenco,
chanson, gospel or jazz – music
connects
Which is why UW has been
enjoying its UNIKoNZERT
(University Concert) series for
more than 25 years. Whether
in homage to Eric Satie or
Tom Waits, a University Concert
is always an experience.
Every semester the program
is arranged with loving attention
to detail and a penchant
for the unusual. From classic
severity to past and present
legend, from the world’s many
cultures to the shrill tones
of subculture, a University
Concert is cult, not mainstream.
It’s always special, it
always connects.
“Music,” said Angelo Branduardi,
“is the best form of
communication.” We agree,
and await our next surprise.
ProGrAM For
tHe Winter
seMester 2011-12
k19.10.11 | Poetic Jazz |
jazz from Poland – one
is rarely touched so
deeply | Pauluskirche
k09.11.11 | More Maids |
Is this Germany’s most
charming folk band? |
Pauluskirche
k14.12.11 | Gabriele Glaser |
Celebrating Mahalia
Jackson’s hundredth birthday
– a homage | Pauluskirche
k18.01.12 | Choir and
orchestra of the University
of Wuppertal | Pauluskirche
kwww.termine.
uni-wuppertal.de
tiCKet sALes
kUwe Blass | UNI Konzerte |
Tel. +49 (0)202 439-2346 | Email
blass@uni-wuppertal.de
kWuppertal Information
office – central bus station
(Elberfeld Döppersberg)
Tel. (0202) 19 433 | open
Mon.–Fri. 9:00-18:00, Sat.
10:00-14:00 | E-mail infozentrum@stadt-wuppertal.de
kKöndgen Books –
university branch
Grifflenberg Campus,
next to main cafeteria |
Tel. (0202) 439 28 75 |
open (teaching semester
only) Mon.–Thurs. 8:30-
16:30, Fri. 8:30-14:00
At_A_GLANCE
Mies VAn der roHe
in WuPPertAL
“Art and technology – a
new unity” was the motto
formulated by Walter Gropius
for the Bauhaus, and it
was in this spirit that two
UW professors from very
different disciplines, design
historian Gerda Breuer and
materials scientist Friederike
Deuerler, set out to examine
Mies van der Rohe’s
famous Barcelona Chair.
Their work ‘From Prototype
to Cult object’ was
presented in an exhibition
at Wuppertal University
Gallery.
kwww.fbf.uni-wuppertal.
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PAintinGs by WiLLi
bAuMeister
Seventy years since work
on them started, thirteen
still extant paintings by Willi
Baumeister (1889-1955)
from a sequence of eighteen
wall paintings executed
for the Wuppertal paint
manufacturer Prof. Dr. Kurt
Herberts could be seen by
the public for the first time
in a permanent exhibition
in the foyer of the Lecture
Hall Center on UW’s Freudenberg
Campus. Willi
Baumeister’s 1939–1940
sequence demonstrates a
variety of techniques and
many different forms.
kwww.archiv.uniwuppertal.de
uniVersity LibrAry
As CuLturAL sPACe
Vorbylder was the title of a
photographic exhibition of
women from the Bergisch
Land who achieved recognition
for their public, social,
cultural or economic
activities. The Remscheid
photographer Guido Adolphs
exhibited the series of
b/w images as role models
for the region and its people.
kwww.vorbylder.de
exHibitions And
reAdinGs in tHe
uniVersity LibrAry
kJapanese Life and
Culture
kWilliam Butler Yeats:
Life and Work
kThe Berlin Wall: a
Boundary through the
German Nation
kVladimir Kaminer:
reading (planned)
kSafeta obhodjas:
Wafting Veils Away
is Why I Write
kGünter Lamprecht: reading
from Döblin’s novel
Berlin Alexanderplatz
k www.termine.
uni-wuppertal.de
steLLA bAuM Art PriZe
At the annual awards ceremony
of the Society of
Friends and Benefactors of
the University of Wuppertal
the Stella Baum Art Prize
for 2010 was presented to
Sandra Creutz for her work
‘Woman with Dog’. The
self-portrait was selected
from 67 submitted works.
The prize, worth €2500, is
named after the Wuppertal
art collector and patron
Stella Baum, who was an
Honorary Fellow of the University
of Wuppertal.
FiLM FestiVAL –
uniCut 2011
The sixth Film Festival,
Unicut 2011, again featured
work by UW students.
The nine films shown at
Wuppertal’s CinemaxX
focused on sport and movement,
above all as an
aspect of daily life. At one
moment serious, the next
humorous, the productions
derived from a cross-faculty
cooperation between
UW’s Sports Sciences and
the Department of Communications
Design at the
Folkwang School of Art in
Essen. The project was
led by Anna Silvia Bins and
Torsten Kleine
kwww.sportwissenschaft.uni-wuppertal.de/
personal/kleine
sCreensHot
‘Gold and new love, at last’
was the motto of an exhibition
in November 2010 at
Wuppertal’s Historic Civic
Hall. UW art students from
Prof. Katja Pfeiffer’s class
presented works ranging
from painting and sculpture
to graphic art and photography
and from abstract compositions
to figures.
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